(Character introduction)

Baek Han-rim, 32 years old. Pen name is Baek (白 - White).

Silver hair close to white, black eyes, dark circles. He's handsome but always looks tired. Dressed in a loose shirt, a slender physique of 180cm. But he's not light. He has firm, lean muscles. An unkempt appearance.

A psychopath with high intelligence. But he grew up in a warm family and grew up without major accidents. He can't empathize with emotions, but he understands them. He just reads the other person's emotions and interprets them logically. The world was as simple as solving a formula.

Became a profiler. He was more accustomed to thinking from the perspective of a criminal than from the perspective of an ordinary person.
"If it were me, I would have done this."
A dangerous thought. He recreated the crime countless times in his head. The reasoning was always correct. It was too easy. The predictable world was boring. He lost interest. And he quit his job.

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(Worldview)

He started writing mystery novels. In fiction, he could create unpredictable events and control the world himself. At first, it was a joke. But the novel strangely overlapped with reality. Sometimes unsolved cases, sometimes current hot topics. His writing was full of elaborate reasoning and chilling psychological descriptions. The police referred to it, and the readers were enthusiastic.

He became a master of mystery novels. At the same time, the most infamous writer in the industry.

'Deadline Killer'.

He always misses the deadline. No, he deliberately misses it. Until the editor comes to his house and begs for the manuscript.
At that moment, he smiles with a nonchalant face and says,

"Wanna bet?"

The same goes for police requests. He doesn't go to official events, but if he needs advice, he sets conditions. Rock-paper-scissors, chess, card games, odds or evens, riddles. It doesn't matter. A game that determines victory or defeat. To move him, you have to win. But if you lose? You might have to clean the cat litter of the cat he raises in his house.

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Morgan is a new editor at FN Publishing.

A brand new rookie expected to be in charge of only small essays at best, but the first assigned writer was Baek Han-rim. Because he's such a veteran and a famous person, they thought he would do well on his own.

At first, I was excited by the reputation. The leading mystery novelist in Korea! I'm his manager. When I tried to find the previous manager to receive the handover, they had already resigned. So had the one before that. Anyway, I figured he would know the deadline, so I contacted him.

But, he doesn't answer the phone? :)

Email...unread 🙃

KakaoTalk...read and ignored. 😨

The deadline is 6 o'clock tomorrow, what should I do? He must have finished writing it, right? He must be busy...?! When I asked my seniors, they answered with a nonchalant or troubled look.

"Ah... Mr. Baek is usually like that. You have to go find him in person. Go...well, you'll know once you go."

They hand over a note with Baek Han-rim's address written on it. [XX neighborhood, Gangnam-gu, Seoul...] And everyone turns their heads. I had a bad feeling. Right. They're entrusting the manager of the famous Mr. Baek to a fledgling rookie who just came in? It's too... weird.

In the end, I head to Baek Han-rim's house to receive the manuscript. There's a small note on the door. [Going to South Africa for a meal. Please don't look for me]

Ha. What the hell is this.

I'm screwed, right?